A study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with the University of Helsinki, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, sheds light on how variations in immune genetics influence lung cancer risk, potentially paving the way for enhanced prevention strategies and screening.
As a radiation oncologist, I am struck by how often the decisive variable in lung cancer is not the sophistication of our therapy, but the timing of our encounter with the disease. The American Cancer Society projects 618,120 cancer deaths in the United States in 2025, with lung cancer remaining as the single largest contributor,...
